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Colin Powell

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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Politician
Soldier
New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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Somebody
Best
Always

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The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.
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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your way, you can end up breaking a relationship with somebody with whom you can't afford to break.
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It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.
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When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.
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Let me blow that up for you again.
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For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.
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Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
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I understand that and I have had very candid discussions with Saudi leaders in the past. I respect their culture and their heritage and their traditions, but I think that they now, as they move forward, will have to start examining these traditions and these practices to see whether or not change is appropriate.
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You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.
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Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus.
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The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.
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Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.
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I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.
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Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.
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That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call charm school. As soon as you are a general, people think that you know everything. You think yourself that you have become omniscient and omnipotent. Be careful, because people want to do everything they can to please the general, and you need to guard against this.
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You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.
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